Searched for: +
(61 - 80 of 1,746)

Pages

document
Cipriani, L. (author)
The Rhenish crater is one of Europe’s largest and deepest open-cast coal mines. Humans have transformed the landscape to the point of giving life to a new geological era. The mine is the symbol of humanity’s power over territorial, environmental, and climatic transformations at impressive levels of scale and scope.<br/>This contribution sums up...
book chapter 2023
document
de Wit, S.I. (author)
book chapter 2023
document
de Wit, S.I. (author)
book chapter 2023
document
Muñoz Aparici, M. (author)
In the context of changing reference points that characterizes contemporary late modernity, public buildings are demanded to adapt to transforming cultural values. Buildings, static long-lasting structures, must satisfy changing purposes, programs, and users. One example of this shif tare libraries which are undergoing transformations both as an...
book chapter 2023
document
Wan, Z. (author), Xu, Y. (author), Šavija, B. (author)
Compared with other self-healing mechanisms, embedding vascular networks in cementitious matrix enables repairing wider cracks and performing multiple healing cycles. For vascular-based self-healing cementitious composites, additive manufacturing (AM) allows fabricating vascular structures with complex geometry. For Fused Filament Fabrication ...
book chapter 2023
document
Psyllidis, A. (author)
Can planning and design influence health and well-being in urban settings? Even though it was the public health issues faced by industrial cities that originally gave rise to the field of city planning, their paths have diverged over the years.However, how human settlements are planned, designed, and built can drastically improve or harm human...
book chapter 2023
document
Veddeler, C.B. (author), Kuijper, J.A. (author), Gath-Morad, Michal (author), van der Wal, I.A. (author)
book chapter 2023
document
Cavallo, R. (author)
book chapter 2023
document
Shah, Jesal (author), Price, R.A. (author), de Koning, J.I.J.C. (author)
To reach the 2050 climate goals, massive socio-technical transitions are required. For requisite impact, not only industry and government need to transform, but a critical mass of society must adopt greener alternatives. However, people have a tendency to maintain the status quo and often resist change until a final moment of urgency or crisis....
book chapter 2023
document
Cavallo, R. (author)
book chapter 2023
document
Cavallo, R. (author)
book chapter 2023
document
Pohl, D. (author), Sterken, Sven (author)
Europe and Brussels had a mutual dependency from the founding of the European Communities. This article explores the historic relation between local urban and the transnational development of post-war Europe. It ultimately raises the question to what extent there exists a dialogue between various actors involved to actively design and build the...
book chapter 2023
document
Swart, J.A.A. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author)
Hybrid potato breeding is an emerging technology that can have a strong impact on the potato sector by replacing seed potatoes with true seeds. The Netherlands is a world leader in certified seed potatoes and a number of Dutch companies play a pivotal role in the development of this technology. This implies a certain responsibility for the...
book chapter 2023
document
Stocker, Volker (author), Lehr, William (author), Smaragdakis, G. (author)
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the ‘real’ world and substantially impacted the virtual world and thus the Internet ecosystem. It has caused a significant exogenous shock that offers a wealth of natural experiments and produced new data about broadband, clouds, and the Internet in times of crisis. In this chapter, we characterise and...
book chapter 2023
document
ter Weel, T. (author), D'Oria, Mariacristina (author)
book chapter 2023
document
van Grunsven, J.B. (author), Marin, L. (author), Stone, T.W. (author), Doorn, N. (author), Roeser, S. (author)
Moral (or ethical) sensitivity is widely viewed as a foundational learning goal in engineering ethics education. We have argued in this paper is that this view of moral sensitivity cannot be readily transported from the nursing context to the engineering context on the basis of a care-analogy. The particularized care characteristic of the...
book chapter 2023
document
Campos Uribe, A. (author), Lacomba Montes, P. (author)
The Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck wrote the Tree-Leaf Statement in 1961, as a visiting professor at Washington University. Contrary to what it may seem, the words were in fact a declaration against the direct analogy of tree-city, since Van Eyck rejected the use of tree hierarchies within the urbanism of his time. "The tree analogy fails...
book chapter 2023
document
Campos Uribe, A. (author)
Introduction to book
book chapter 2023
document
Sand, M. (author)
The present chapter begins by exploring whether the project of a hermeneutic technology assessment (TA) squares well with some of TA's most fundamental presuppositions and commitments including, for instance, to provide assessments that are relevant for policymakers and can guide the shaping of emerging technologies in a responsible manner. If –...
book chapter 2023
document
Heurkens, E.W.T.M. (author)
It goes without saying that cities of tomorrow face numerous challenges that will change their appearance drastically. We only now begin to notice a gradual change towards climate-adaptive cities, inner-city renewable energy production, and more healthy urban environments by re-naturing our public realm and buildings as well as accommodating...
book chapter 2023
Searched for: +
(61 - 80 of 1,746)

Pages